Hook and eye.



No. 844.089. PATENTED FEB. l2 1907.

A. BBSSUN.

HOOK AND EYE; runner-nun nov. 4, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDRE BESSON, OF PARIS, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR TO THE FIRM OF TREUHERZ & FUSS, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

HOOK AND EYE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 12, 1907.

Application filed November 4, 1904. Serial No. 281,421.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANDRE BESSON, merchant, a citizen of the Republic of France, residing at 29 Rue des Petits Champs, Paris,

France, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a clasp more par ticularly adapted for fastening garments.

The essential feature of the new clasp is the provision of a device for locking together the two cooperating parts of the clasp.

The improved clasp comprises two parts a hooked member and a transverse member or bar, each of which members is suitably attached by stitches or otherwise to a part of the article of wear or other object to be has tened. The hooked member is provided with a locking or safety device consisting of a resilient tongue or the like, which may be stamped out of the body of the hook and is bent in such manner that on introduction of the bar into the hook the former snaps into a depression in the said resilient member and cannot then be again dislodged by accidental pull or pressure.

The accompanying drawing illustrates one embodiment of my invention.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the clasp,

0 showing the parts in engagement. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the bar, and Fig. 3 a like view of the hooked member singly. Fig. 4 is a back view of the latter member. Fig. 5 is a section on the line a: m of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 illustrates the application of the clasp to a garment, the latter being unfastened. Fig. 7 is a like view showing the garment fastened by the clasp.

The hooked member 1, which is designed to be stitched or otherwise secured to the part A of a garment or other article, may consist of a strip of sheet metal bent over to form a hook 2, a central strip being stamped out to present a tongue 3, forming an integral part of the entire member. Ihe tongue 3 is bent or curved upward from the root as far as the part 4, Fig. 5, and then downward, and finally upward again, so that between the bend 4 and the extremity 5 of the ton ue a, hollow or depression is presented. The

elasticity of the tongue is not interfered with,

as it can move freely in the aperture 6, located above it in the part 2. '1 he member 1 is furnished with ears or lugs 7, pierced at 8, and with perforations 9, whereby it can be stitched to the fabric A, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7.

The bar 10, which is to engage in the hooked member 1, is stitched or otherwise attached to the other part B of the garment and, like the part 1, may be of metal. Its ends are flattened out, so as to present small plates or cars 11, which are perforated at 12 to receive the sewing-thread.

When the members 1 10 are brought into engagcrrent for the purpose of fastening the parts A B, the bar 10 is caused to slide along the tongue 3 from the root up to the bend 4, on passing which it will snap down into the depression lying between the bend 4 and extremity 5, as shown in Fig. 5, whereby the parts are locked and the garment A B socurely fastened.

To un'fasten the garmont that is to say, to release the members 1 10it is merely necessary to exert slight pressure on the end 5 of the tongue in the direction of the arrow y, Fig. 5, and at the same time to draw the bar 10 in. the direction of the arrow 2, Fig. 7.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A clasp for garments and the like comprising in combination a hooked member arranged to be attached to a part to be fastoned and having a resilient tongue stamped centrally out of said hooked member and bent so as to present a depression at the bend of tho hooked member, and a straight bar located transversely of the said tongue and 0 terminally perforated in its longitudinal axis to receive thread for securing it to a second part to be fastened to the said first part, the said bar being of such a length as to allow longitudinal movement of the said hooked member thereon, the whole being arranged in such manner that when the said bar is located in said depression in the hooked memher the action of the said tongue on the said bar is transverse to the longitudinal axis of 10 the bar and parallel with the terminal permy name, this 19th day of October, 1904, in fomtlens thereln, whereby all tendency el l the presence of two $11 bseribmg wltnesses. the Saul bait to twist 11 its lengwu lnml axis ANDRE BESSON whlle engagmg anrl disengaging Saul heoke l I 5 me nber is ObVHLtOIl, substantmlly as de- Witnesses:

scnbed. H MAURICE ROUNE,

In Wlbnflss whereof l have hereunto slgned l JOHN BAKER. 

